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From: espen@math.uio.no (Espen J. Vestre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: classic weirdness...
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.124303.26442@ulrik.uio.no>
Date: 10 Dec 90 12:43:03 GMT
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Organization: Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Oslo
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In article <22050@well.sf.ca.us> djb@well.sf.ca.us (David Jospeh 
Brightbill) writes:
> I have encountered a major weirdness with a new mac classic.  This may 
belong
> in comp.virus but I don't think so.  The classic is a 2/40 running 6.0.7.
> When it was delivered from the distributor, it came with WDEF on it.  I 
> found it with disenfectant, removed it, and now it reports itself as 
being
> clean.  It's also running the disenfectant init and gatekeeper aid.  The
> machine has two problems.  The first is that it lost it's sounds.  When 
you
> choose the sound cdev, no matter which of the four sounds you choose, you
> get a beep.  The other problem is that the icon for word has turned 
generic.
> Anybody got a suggestion?

After I had a short WDEF infection, and removed it with Disinfectant, I 
suddenly discovered that several applications had lost their icons.  
Rebuilding the desktop did _not_ help, the bundle bits of these 
applications had been flipped!  After this followed a period with several 
funny hard disk problems, until it suddenly was so messy that the mac 
couldn't boot any more.  Luckily, at that point I had already taken a 
backup and was ready to format the disk.

My only explanation is that WDEF can do serious harm to  your hard disks 
logical structure, and that it therefore is advisable to reformat as soon 
as one encounters unexpected file errors.

But of course you shouldn't bother about this at all, but leave it all to 
your dealer.  It is very unprofessional to deliver a machine with such a 
common virus, and the least the dealer can do is to rush to you 
immediately and do the formatting and installation for you.  And then you 
should give him a copy of the newest version of Disinfectant...


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Espen J. Vestre                 
Department of Mathematics
University of Oslo
P.o. Box 1053 Blindern
N-0316 OSLO 3
NORWAY                            espen@math.uio.no
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